Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 3 December 2074 at 14:03.
Cold Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2075 after 27 days on 2 January 2075 at 09:39.
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1775"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1947".
Lunation 926 / 1879
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 926 of Meeus index or 1879 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 24 minutes and it is 53 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠352.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠352.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.7°.
Moon after apogee
1 day since point of apogee on 3 December 2074 at 13:40 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 December 2074 at 20:35 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 403 826 km(250 926 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 126 km(221 908 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 22 November 2074 at 18:20 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 December 2074 at 03:38 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 21 November 2074 at 20:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.732° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠21.807° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 December 2074 at 03:05 in ♋ Cancer.
In 12 days on 18 December 2074 at 07:20 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.